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WEBE I A LITTLE BIRD . [ Translated by W . Akdessoh , from tbe French oi
A rover , e ' en at beauty ' s shrine _l'dpay a _traveller ' s call , no more : I would the little _nia-s were mine Oa which thon , pretty bird , dost soar ! Thou _see _' stfidlniany a country bright ; Thy sports all nature ' s works invite ; Tlie sky is pure , the air is free . I'd fly quick , quick ! ay , quick as light , Were 1 a little bird like thee ! I'd Jeara of tuneful _ririlomel _, With gttitle sounds to charm the glade ; Then hover near the pastourelle _, And join in son 5 tu - rustic maid . I'd cheer OHe hermit ' s dwelling low—2 fo relics selleth he , I know , But the poor bless Uis charity . I'd fly quick , quick ! ay , t here I'd go , Were I a little bird like _tiu-e !
I'd hie me to the turrets dread , ' "Where sadly pine the captives Ions ; ¦ Wi'h bidden wing and drooping head , I'd chant a song of plaintivo toae . One at my sight would faintl y smile ; Another muse—dreaming the while Of fields he lov _« _-d in youth to see . IM fly quick , quick I were't many a nile , And I a little bird like tbee ! To a king ' s court I'd next away Some pleasure-wearied , joyless elf—Pilling bis halls with carols gay , Oa olive-tree I'd perch myself . Then to the hiding-place , where He Some poor proscribed family , I'd bear a slip of that same tree ! I'd fly quick , quick ! Mow low , blow high , 'Were I a Uttle bird like thee !
But day and sight , witb might and main , I'd flee from beauty ' s dangerous eyes , Lest powerful Love should or . ee again Hy he art in captive bonds surprise ! K on fair bosom—likely case—Thst hunter wise his net should place , Too well I know how it would be ; I'd fly there , quick , with headlong pace , Were I a Uttle bird like thee !
Lowbands. Say, Bare Yon Been In Fairy-La...
LOWBANDS . Say , bare yon been in Fairy-Land , Where beauty with abundance vhs _, 'Where lovely homes for freemen stand Tbat make of earth a paradise ? I saw these homts—each smiling cot , And bless'd their happy , happy lot . I saw the chief , whose coble mien A patriot ' s heart , at once bespoke , _ A heart that is , like freedom , green , And cannot bear a servile yoke . His homely , mild , _majestic air , Proclaim ' . ! that something great was there . Well , I exclaimM , all mast allow This man was made fer _Lib-.-rty , Sure Cincinnatns , at tbe plough , Conld never poorer , humbler be ! No , no . a pauper _miiht afford The dainties of bis frugal board .
His simple , plain and neat attire For freedom ' s sons alone was made _. His household is what men require "Who wish to live without parade . In all , a modern sage we find , To teach a lesson to mankind . Such is the man whom all belied , "Who said his projects were but saad ; While he with dignity replied . Bat by the wonders of his band . Be struck the earth—and lo ! we see Tbe greatest modern prodigy .
O ' Connorville was his first-born . Where all _sei-ms fanciful , yet true , A city baUtby rosy morn . To teach the earth what He can do . Thus little worlds he can command , See , Lowbands now is Fairy-Land . The idle theorist defines His speculations , overwrought ; O'Connor , great in his designs , Alone has practis'd what he taught . Go , witness _faets , no wordy plan , And then admire this mighty man .
At moro , yon find him in the _lawas , In quest of health , so light and free , With children , following like fawns , To sit , enthroned , npon each knee . Ah ! wdl the little truants know Tbe heart that feels for others' woe At even , ha sees the _setting sun ll . de it ' s red face behind the hill , Thin homeward hies , when ail is done , To teach the world , and labour still . Who wonld sot envy such a fate ! Is snch a man not truly great ! We need not seek in foreign climes The patriot's sterling worth to find , We have in men ef modern times , AU Greeks and Romans left behind . -Of these seme thousands left a name , Bat who can tell O'Connor ' s fame .
Yes , he shall have a patriot ' s part _. When cold beneath the coffin lid , His _templfs , nnlike those of art , S ' jali long outlive the pyramid . His name , one day , inscribed shall be Upon a nation ' s memory . O'Connorville and _Fairy-Lind _, Are monuments that cannot die ; Th . y immortality command , And may alike all time defy . The people there , from age to age , Shall be his living , deathless page .
What need he care when knaves revile , Whea friends betray , or foes reprove ; He may at all their follies smile , Canunt to share the people ' s love , Hia Tile traduccrs can ' t be Uss—A worthless fry of nothingness . Live , worthy friend , thou hast been sent To trace a glorious , bright career , To raise np freedom ' s monument _. Without a crime , without a tear . Whit greater mission can there he ? Fill up , Sil np , thy destiny . Hfnst Gbaccbcs _, GgBtleman , London , Anzast 23 rd . 1 S 47 .
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REVELATIONS I'OLITIQUES . LES TROIS VICTIM ES _" . Pae 12 Come be Wilibrod . [ Political Revelations . The Three Victims . By the Count _deWiilbrod . ] _London : _Armand , hathbone-place . { Continued from the Star of August 21 st . ) And now ne eoiae to the last hours ofthe Empire , disastrous to France , unfortunate for Didier , who Lad , within a short period , seen alibis projects fallandwMubem _. _alllus hopes of prosperity , founded en their presumed success- lie became a desperate man . After haviBg , in tnrn tried Revolution and _lUonarchy—Buonaparte and Bourbon—political life , and private occupation—ruined in fortune , bankrupt in character , y e t ac t ive a nd ener g etic as ever , Didier now turned his eyes on anew personage in the political world : —
From 1789 , tbe eldest son ot Philippe Egalit«—( Equality Philip , as the late Duke of Orleans waa termed ) had taken a post which pledged him deeply tothe leaden of the Revolution . On the other hand , after having offered his services to the Vendeans , he had thrown himself on the clemency of Louis XVIII . _entrecting him to forget the follies into which youth and impetuosity had led him . The Vendeans had rejected tbe offers ofthe son of E gali t e , but
Louis could pardon the Duke of Orleans . Henceforth Lis position was one which few honest men would envy . Bound to tba revolutionary party by education , prejudice , hereditaryinstinct—pledged to the _monarchical by the favour he received from hia ccu 3 iu , and by the marriage he then _csntracted . Louis Philippe _httld in fact asort of midway position between J :: cobinism and monarchy—between the old religion aud the new philosophy—and thus wa _3 the Tery _ckief for a faction whose opinions rested on the _debatable land between the old and the new
monarchy , aud who wished to effect a compromise between " the revolution and _legitimacy . Besides _, during his wandering life he bad made friends and partisans in almost every country of Europe , and had formed a party who gave , even in the height of revolutionary ardour , some disquietude to the Directory . _Dumcurkziudeed , seriously proposed in 1795 . to give Louis t he crown of France , but General Charette , to whom the proposition was first made , rep lied mere pithily than politely . »¦ My dear Dumouriez , « Tell t e son of Citizen _Egalite to go ana be hanged , _feigned ) ' _Chevalieb Chabettb . * Darin * the brilliant reign of Napoleon , the Duke of _Oriels appeared to remain quiet , tut he was « ally _employed in gaining over friends to his party , _SdwhenBuona _jiarle ' _. powcr _begantodscrme _. we find the name if . Orleans at the head of the intri then set on foot .
gue * . ... _ ,, turned hia eyes . The prince was « _" _*««« Palermo , and Didier spoke in his family of going thither _iniuebpoaitiTeterm _? , _tbatlus youngest son , Simon , surprised that he shonld think of leaving France , sought in Guthrie ' s Geograp hy for some account of Palermo : _acirciimstance which caused tne child to remember the fact . Madame Didier did not then confide to her children the o bject of his contemplated journey , but in after years sbe _Vftea _««
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_?*!^ _™ rT , hTely _FP * that _* e _«*« " _»* of LoawXVm . ; er France should have prevented her husband front going to Sicily , when his domestic difficulties _wom'd havebeen arranged by the Duke of Orleans , whom she never _eeased te praise . But whilst Didier was contemplating this journey . the disastrous campaign is Russia , tbe abdication and the return of the Bourbon ? , changed tbe lace of affairs in France , and hfe hastened , almost before Louis XVIII . could land at Calais to offer liim the homaee which had been at the disposal nt * every
government since tbe time of Louis XVI . But recently ho had dedicated to Napoleon his' Return to Religion . ' Now that the storm of adversity had overwhelmed that great man , whose fame had filled the universe , Didier , like other asses , could not refrain from giving a kick to the conquered Hon . Bis duplicity was rewarded . lie was created Master of Requests , and decorated with _tfeecrsss ofthe _Legion of Honour . Greater advancement wns promisedhim , yet he was among the first to throw himself at the feet of Napoleon on his return from Elba , and again offer him his devotion and his services .
Napoleon was indeed surrounded at this juncture hy traitors and renegades , but the sudden ciiangc in the advocate Didier was too great , too violent , not to be suspicious . Uis name was erased from the imperial list of functionaries . Without office , employment , or private fortune , harassed with debts , Didier felt a mortal hatred for Napoleon , whom he had looked ob as his destroyer . Compromised with the elder branch of the Bourbons , and with Nap oleon , hut one port offered his shattered vessel a saf e h a rbour .
Thc Orleans intrigues had recommenced with the fall of the empire . VariouB plots were formed for placing the crown on the head of the Duke of Orleans , who , notwithstanding his protestations and solemn oaths to the contrary , was no way unwilling to receive the gift . Thus was tbe Duku of Orleans , then reinstated , by an act of special favour , in bis rank and property , the only hope -of the desperate iutriguer , Didier . Moreover , the Duke , as an old acquaintance , and as uniting , or being supposed to unite , something of the liberal feeling of the Revolution , with the time-honoured claims ot hereditary monarchy , had
peculiar attractions for our conspirator , who seems to have _bren for seme time after the return of 1814 a trusted confidant of the mongrel Duke . Nor is it astonishing that he should find Didier , during the Hundred Dags , publicly avowing his belief that France would Hever be prosperous or happy _. unti l , r ? - j ecting the rule of effete elder branch of _theBourbons , she shonld place her sceptre in the hands ofthe Duke of Orleans . This was the day dream of . Didier—the favorite theme on which he based hia political theories—bis many projects ofsocial _organisation . IIe was s « on awakened from his brief dream of prosperity . The turmoil and agitation ofthe Hundred Days had not subsided when Louis XVlII . _occe more
_ascended tee throne ef Frauce , and Didier found himself poor , disregarded , and despairing . But the feeble monarchy was far from being established—the Chamber of Representatives , es p ecially , sought but a pretest to overthrow a throne of which they detested the occupier . The 20 th of March had shown how _powerful and enereetic was still the revolutionary spirit of France ; 40 , 000 men , intrenched behind tho Loire , the last remnant of the all-conquering battalions of Napoleon , waited but a word , a signal from the Emperor , to march , not as formerly , to invade the extremities ofthe earth , but to conquer the crown of France . Tyranny , licentiousness , disorder , reigned through the land ; the fears of tbe people were craftily exaggerated by those who profited by tbe terror they excited—the Emperor of Russia and the Duke of Wellington had not yet condescended to decide the fate of France , and all the marks of the times promised
success to any scheme that a daring and desperate man conld concoct . The fall of Talleyrand , bis best protector , hastened the events we arc ahout to relate . Talleyrand loved power , for power ' s sake—not for the good he could do with it . lie knew himself deservedly suspected by the king . De felt himself un masked by Napoleon . He soughtonlyto make himself necessary , by some means or other , to the newgovernment . This drew him into closer intimacy with _FouchS , who , though also dismissed from thc Ministry , was better treated than Talleyrand , being sent as . Ambassador to Dresden : an act almost _inexplicable oa tbe part of Louis XVIII ., wh o could scarcely be blind to thc character of the man he trusted ; perhaps , he thought by these means to gain _FoUchS to hi * interests , or to deprive him of the possibility ot injuring him—if so , he was mistaken . { To be _centinued . )
The Famil Y Herald. Part 50 And 51. Geor...
The Famil y Herald . Part 50 and 51 . George Biggs , Strand . From the first publication of this excellent pe riodiral , it has held a high place in our regard , and we have watched its onward and upward progress with feelings of deep satisfaction . Thc variety and excellence of the matter it presents defy all competition , and the judicious selection of the contents , not less than the deep thought and racy language ofthe leaders , show that , unlike the Fox ' s Mask in the fable , it is not only fine to look at , but there are brains within .
The tales in the present numbers deserve approbation , not merely as pretty and gracefully written , but as working out a purpose . We may instance particularly the novelletta called' The lives of Grace and Isabel ; or , to be and to seem , ' as containing Eiauy lessons of deep import to the young and the fair on their entrance into life . Several others deserve _particular notice , did our space permit it , but of the whole we may safely say they are very p leasing , and perfectly unexceptionable , as the contents of all Family periodicals ought to be . But tbat section of the work which pleases us the best is , the weekl y leader , The papers ara indeed admirable ; full ot
profound , though perhaps somewhat eccentric , thought , affording tha reader ample food for meditation . Perhaps the most practically useful leader in th e p r e s e nt numb e rs is on e on Godfathers and _God-MoniEss . The relationship is one which , confined within due brands , might be made eminently useful in many _social circles , but itis _notorious that the utmost indifference prevails on the subject . That Godfathers are chosen from the merest strangers , and that very few iadced regard the _du'ies they owe , and the obligations they incur , in any more solemn light than as a mirk of courtesy to the parents . The cause of thu universal neglect is thus commented on in the' Family Herald . '
Perhaps one maia ennse of the abase and neglect of the _relationship we speak of ia the language of the obligation incurred . Tnis is a modern appendage to the institution itself . The lhnguage is , perhaps , too strong . The tax is too burdensome to be borne . It is a tax like that of the law of Moses , wbich neither we nor onr fathers could bear . We are _compelled , in standing godparent to a chiid , to become its surety , ' that it will renounce the Devil and all his works , and constantly believe God ' s holy word , ai . d obediently heep his command .
ments . ' This is _rosre than weoursclres can do ; and how can we undertake that other _psople should do it ! Yet it must be undertaken , or thc child is not baptised ; and it is _undertaken , just as the cabman undertook it , without consideration . The intention is good ; but the exaction is so stvere , that we might as well undertake to keep the whole law of Moses as to incur the responsibility of god parentage imposed upon cs by the language of the service . It requires perfection , and _perfection we cannot give ; but we undertake to give it , We undertake to 'do what we kuow to be impossible _.
_Orcr-exaction is over-reaching . It defeats its own ends . The State has fonnd this to be the case in taxation . Over-taxation brings in a small revenue ; ond , moreover , it encourages smuggling , which is tantamount in the State to apostasy and profanity in the Church . One of the principal peculiarities of modern political reform is the reduction of taxation for the purpose of increasing the revenue !—a singular idea , not at all intelligible to a barbarian , nor in a barbarous age . But experience has proved the idea to he correct ; and itis quite as correct in spirituals as in temporals ; and the two worlds are in strict analogy with one another , and go arm in arm witb each other down the stream of time , either legitimately or illegitimately . At present our childreu are smuggled into the Church . The exaction
is so severe , that we evade it ; and tbe clergyman assists us in tbe evasion . He permits parents to supply the piece of godparents , and he permits godparents to stand sponsors , without inquiry whether they even know the parents of the children or not—whether they know where t hey lire , or ever expect to see them or the child again . This is spiritual smuggling ; and it is done every Sunday , without silf-reproacb , just as men smuggle whiskey or tobacco without remorse , becauso they regard thc tax as exorbitant , or a burden too great to be borne . The more reasonable an engagement is , the more likely it is to be kept . The _common-place fashion _, able professions of friendship , es t eem , and res p ect are received in society with a very large discount , because experience has taught us that , like depreciated paper
money , the nominal does not fairly represent the real value . 'Mj parse is at your service , ' ' Make mj bouse your own , ' 'Yours faithfully , ' 'Yours truly , ' aro so many formalities , which want the spirit that they nominally represent . We take them at what they are worth , and laugh good-naturedly at tbc tlegsnt und deceitful polish with which tb _« y flatter Hie ear and soothe the feelings . But ' I promise to pay ten pounds , ' with a signature attached to . it , _is > very different thing , and 13 not very easily obtained e » en from a man who says , ' My purse is at jour seriice . ' An impossible or extravagant promise ib easily made . We are all ready to die for one another—to spend a thousand lives for
her _Majtity— to give the world for a draught of sodawater , where we kuow we eannot procure it ; and to give the planet Jupiter to any man in exchange fur a glass ot cid _; r ; yet we would grumble at a charge of one shilling for the elder or the soda-water ; and , perhaps , ba tbe first to turn hjel ( the coward ' s most invulnerable part ) , were her _Msjestj _' s person or crown in danger from a foreign invasion . _Extravagances are not measurable quantities , and therefore have no definite value . A godfather who merely promised to t » ach his godchild to read , or its pay its schooling , and to catechise it ouoe a week on religions subjects , would undertake something _practicable ; aud would most probably , fulfil his promise , if _tis- _? _x «!* l 5 Hi * 5 « _^ _ecmJtUfd ; bat hs whq promises to
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make it reaounce the Devil and all his « <»*» , believe God's holy word , and keep his commaudra , " _"' _« , whilst he himself renounces all the _vanities of the wor l d , all carnal and covetous deBlres , only smiles in his . s l e eve at the extravagance of the uadcrtaking , and says be will do it no , doubt , as other people do it—that is , not at all _. We have observed so often tho unconcern with ( which people undertake the responsibilities of godparent ? , and indeed their utter ignorance of the promises to pay tlat they are signing on sueh occasions , that we do not wonder at the disrespectful manner in which the ceremony is spoken of by the enemies of the chureh . The church of course is not to blame for people ' s infidelity to solemn engagements ; the people themselves must answer for
the manner in which tbey fulfil their promises . Hut it is a _serieus thing to think tbat our most sacred _institn . tions , instead of lessening , increase tbe amount of our guilt by multiplying and magnifying our unredeemed pledges ; a eurious illustration of the saying of St Paul , that * tbe law entered that sin might abound , ' for such solemn engagements seem to have been made perfect and impracticable on purpose to increase our guilt bj _contrasting so strikingly our dutits with our _performances _, ln this latter sense they may be made useful to those whe thus look at them , and no doubt they are useful and havo their mission for pood . But the best _Kond they could do , wo suspect , wouid be the conviction of our own evil compared to the good tbat we ought to have done _.
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The Portrait op Charles 1 st , _sr _Vmajtftz . — Exhibiting at 21 , Old Bond-atrect . This is an extremely beautiful painting , executed when Charles was Prince of Wales , and during his romantic visit to the Infanta of Spain . The picture represents him as a much handsomer man , than da any of the other likenesses we have seen ; the gloomy and morose expression which is usually given to his face , is , in this picture , softened into the most touching pensiveness ; there is a bloom upon the _cheeky and a retundity about the whole _countenam-e which strongly contrasts with the angular and longish featured face of after years ; But it must be remembered that this picture was painted when Charles was in thc first bloom ' of manhood , and before he had _suffered from tho _small-pox , whi n h shortly afterwards attacked him . The painting now exhibiting lias great historical interest besides _posessing uncommon merit as a work of art .
«*> - ? The _Bosjrsmans ; or , Little Bosh-People . — Egyptian Hall . Piccadilly . These extraordinary little animals , ( God forbid we should call thera Men !) form a curious and Interesting exhibition rather than a very pleasing ' onc . They are very diminutive but not ill-proportioned ; their countenances sharp and p eculiarly ' knowing , ' but scareely intellectual ; and their clothing ( if by courtesy we can desi gnate that whicii is certainly aot a covering , ) evinces a total absence of natural tasteand refinement . Their
heads present an interesting study to tbe phrenologist , and a comparison drawn between them and the skulls of the North American Indians , e xhibite d at the Egytian Hall a few years since , places the latter race in a much higher pesition in the scale of being than these funny little creatures were ever destined to fill . The Bush people are truly curiosities , and we cannot but look upon them as one of the links in that mysterious chain which seems to unite the different varieties of existence throughout creation .
Mr Em ' s Picidbes op Joan op Arc —These important historical pictures , wbich formed the great attraction at the last exhibition of the Royal Academy , and were purchased by Messrs Colls and Ma 93 , from the artist , for thelarge sura ot 2 . 500 guineas , _havejust been completed by MrEtty ; who lias been actively _ensaged painting _upt-n tbem since their removal from Trafalgar-Equare . VYe observed _several great improvements as the results of bis I-tours , especially in the clump of trees introduced nehind the head of the monk in the last picture oi the series , and also in the general conn of colour an 1 finish in the largest picture . They form an intellectual treat , now that they can be viewed alone and
away from the distraction and glare of the Academy walls . In colour they are rich and powerful in the extreme , the subject sublime and elevating ; they are noble works , of tlie higkcBt order of art . and worthy of the mind of the greatest painter of the age and country . None but a great master like Etty could have embraced so largo a subject , or treated it with such grandeur and success . The pictures ara about to be exhibited at Liverpool , and other _'arge towns , and aho at Paris and on the continent , indi will afterwards be engraved : we are glad to find : hat they have fallen into the hands of enterprising men , and that the pubiic will bave an opportunity of _seeing theis , for they are works oi art of which the age aud country may be proud .
Royal PoLVTKcnsic Institution . —Among the numerous works of science and art deposited in this most noble institution , there _has been added an engraving of his grace , tke Duke of Wellington . It is not too much to say , in the most emphatic language t is _possible to use , that this likeness will take _precedence of all others which bave been published . The character of his Grace ' s countenance is _admirably preserved . _ai ; d the light _smiie which p lays upon his features recalls vividly his ordinary aspect ; not a
trace of the original man has been lost , for the image of the illustrious Duke has been seized and retained with a literalness and individuality about which there can be no dispute . This portrait of the great captain has been engraved from a smaller one originally taken froma daguerreotype It is the same _' _siza as that splendid engraving of Napo _' eon , by De La Roche , of P a ris , and for which it is intended for a companion We nuiy add that Mr Ryal has executed the engraving with exquisito skill and effect ; the _lights are delicately diffused and given a softness of cone not to be surpassed .
The Colosseum . —Some interesting additions have recently been made to thc valuable and extensive collection of sculpture at this establishment . They include Scoalar _' d exquisite group of « The Deluge ;' Mr Thrapp ' a » Arethusa ; ' * Tlie Fall of Satan , ' by Browu ; ' The Boy and Lizard , ' by Sharp ; Mr Crowley ' s 'Drowned Boy ; ' and bomoother works o f hi gh merit equally well known , besides several busts and figures of prominent public characters . As an exhibition of Modern Art the Sculpture Gallery at the Colosseum is now , we believe , one of the best in this country .
Cremorse GAnDENs . —On Monday evening a more than usual number of persons were attracted to _Cremerne-gardens to witness the ascent of two balloons , viz ., the Victoria and Coronation ballon *—the one dire ct ed by tbe veteran Mr Charles Green , and the other by his brother , Mr II . _Grei-n . Thc wind was blowing very fresh from the north-east at the time of the ascent , seven o ' clock , and the machines were carried through the air in . 'lie direction of Wimbledon-common , with extraordinary speed , the Vi ct ori a taking the lead . The whole of the very numerous company seemed to thoroughly enjoy tlie various entertainments provided for their amusement .
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Asciest Relic 3—The discovery of human bones by the workmen engaged in preparing the ground for the railway terminus at St Leonard's , in Perth , has been followed by other and more extensive remains . Several stone coffins of Saxon workmanship have been come to , containing burnt clay urns , with ashes in several _case 3 ; showing tbat this bad been a public burying place long ere the Cathelic days . A very singular discovery has also been made of a Roman road , many feet below the present surface , and immediately below a deep hed of clay . Perth , or Victoria , is well known to have been one of the principal Roman stations north of the Forth ; and the remains of the roads communicating with thc camp at Ardoch in the west , and at Delvin ou the lay , are still to be seen .
Astiqmtv op tbe _Elkctrio Telegraph . —A correspondent of the S pect a tor points out that although tho electric telegraph i 3 considered by many to be thc most wonderful of modern inventions , yet the following extract will show that thc idea of such a medium of communication was started long ago . It is from a _patier by Addison , in the Spectator , No . 141 , entitled Letter on the Absenoa of Lovers : Remedies Pro * posed , ' and rims as follows :- ' Strada , in one ef hia Prolusions ( Lib . ii . prol . 6 ) . gives an account of a chimerical correspondence _hetwecn two _trienda by thc help of a certain loadstone , which had such virtue in it that if it touched two several needles , when one of tbe needles so _toucht-d began to move , the other , thoug h at never so great a distance , moved at the same time ar . d in the same manner . lie tells us , tbat the two friends being each of them _possessed of oneof these ucedles , made a kind of dial-plate ,
_inscribe * it with the four-and twenty letters , m the same manner as thc hours of the day are marked unon the ordinary dial-plate . They then fixed one ofthe needles on each of these plates msucha manner that it could move round without impediment , so as to touch any of the four _and-twenty letters . Upon tbeir separating from one another into distant countries , they agreed to wUadraw themselves punctually iato their closets at a certain hour of the day , and to converse with ono another by _msuu ofthis their invention . _Accordinjly , when they were some hundred miles asunder , each of them shut himself up in his closet at the time appointed , awl imm e di a t e l y casi his eye upon his dial-plate . It ho bad a mind to write anything to his friend ho directed his needle to every letter that formed tho _worda which he had occasi on for , _> nakin e » _"e nn , i 00 _« f . ii , * nn
confusion . The friend in the meanwhilo saw his own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that of his correspondent pointed at . _uy _tnia means they talked together across a whole continent , and conveyed their thoughts to one another in an instant over cities or mountains , seas or deserts . 4 A _Chamki BASK .-The Cbartists are wising subscriptions to establish a bank , to bo _callea UW Labour Bank , ' with a capital of £ 50 , 000
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f umicfth 0 truttor .. . - _..:. LETTERS ON GRAMMAR . rw NTT . ' I Wc bavenmeh pleasure in introducing to our readers thd following interesting and highly important communication from tlie pen of a very talented and poptilar authoress , whose _oxtutn and nobleness _OFHiARTare both unquestionable . We anticipate the oeet results from the promised series of letters . May _thesonsuf toil , whose friends have hitherto been but too _Beauty , rightly appreciate and take advantage of the generous services ef our and their _benevaleat mend . —Sd . N . S ]
• so the _womma-GLASSES ., My dear _Jriinds _. _—Ttw results of tbe late _gewral election haw beea , on the whole , so bsnefieiol to the cause of the-people , the _cantos at Nottingham and elsewhere ha * , shown to you _nndlall tho world , in « th _glowing colour * , the Inevitable consequence sf _Wunimv an * head union amongst yourselves , tbat every man in Bngl «„ dmu 9 tloo ! MorwHrd with' hope t * the period , not wry _dhtant _, whenthat _clasa from whom fl . ms the wealth of our _island-the _eluss of labouring mn—shall _haveadue voico in the mahln ? of the laws by which thej are to-be governed ; when their accents of just remonstrance shall prevent thc _passing of many an iniquitouB Act , and their commoa practical g 6 od sense _ohnU be heard , anil its suggestions carried out in defiance of the crafty _subtlety-the theoretical _lip-knowledge now misnamed Potieyi
But I am too truly and slneerclj . jour friend and wellwisher , to conceal from you tho fact ,. that tbe most important steps towards this grand consummation must be taken by _TonaaEtvss _, Your destinies ure in your own hinds—but you must labour to make-thorn beud _. to your will . In intellect , in feeling , in _scnBe , yon are inferior to no people on tho face of tho globo _; but as tho siebest Boil _requires cultivation beforo you can make it bear grain , so do your minds require training . before _ynu-. can have the ful ) benefit of that rich crop of thought and energy which such culture will produce . ¦ Now Lanovace , the power of uttering our thought * -, is ono of the distinctive marks of rational beings ; it is-that organ by which we convince , persuade , or terrify our _lellow-crcatures—by which we may melt the heart with
joy , br petrify it with fenr—by which we may _publish . our wrongs , or spread through the world the stery of our triumphs . Is this grand , this ennobling poiver , to be despised ? Should we leave this fertile land uncultivated ? Surely not . - Lartgwxae may become all that I have Baid , but whieh of you has not known many individuals whose power of utterance scarce sufficed to make their friends comprehend tbeir moBt ordinary _tboughtu-aiid who could not write a letter that could be understood 1 Ml this arisoB from want of cultivation . Language is like steam —it will , if properlg applied , send a ship across the Atlantic in defiance of the loudest gales of Heaven in its face—but it may also servo only t _» lift tho lid of a teakettle !
Now tbe 8 eienceofGKAMMAB will , If properly understood , enable jou to use Language at will : it wiil teach you—not iudecd to t / iinfc . but to express your thoughts , in the clearest and most forcible manner . It will teach you to arrange your thoughts _i-n order , so as to bring couviction to your readers and hearers ; it will raise you in your own estimation and in that of others ; for a sensible spetch _, or a well-written letter , is , like a pleasing _coun tenanee _, a perpetual letter of recommendation _. To aid you in this pursuit of _uuful aud necessary knowledge , the Editor of the _Nobthebn Stab , h » s kindly romised to devote a column weekly to my letters on Grammar—the principles of wbich scienco I trust you will shortly comprehend , as I Intend to avoid using any words which disguise the meaning of that which I wish you to learn and understand .
In studying Grammar we study tho art of speaking and of writing well . Host people in the higher ranks of so ciety consider themselves as good grammarians—but I mean , when I have gone through thc rudiments of the science , to show you how very little our authors , divines , or statesmen , know about the matter . If you do not , in six months , know more of the English Language than they do , I shall indeed regret having wasted my time in writing to you . There are four parts in _Grammar—OitTHOGBAPn _* , _Pnosonr , _ETiaoioov _. and Sintax . Orthography is tlte art of Spelling ; Prosody , thc art of Pronouncimj ; Etymology tenches the power and changes of words ; and Syntax shows its how to make our words agree togitlier , to construct sentences-which shall empress our meaning .
The lirst part of Grammar is Orthography , or the art of SpcUing . Ou this subject I hare very little to say to you , _exctpt to point out how important a knowledge of Orthography is , and how you may acquire it in the easiest manner . AU words are made up of letters . There are twentysix letters ; namely-ABCDEFGHIJKLUNO rQRSTUVWXTZ . These letters make words ; bu t as in our language , many words are soutided in thc same manner , which are spelt quite differently , and mean _different things , it is necessary to know what letters make any word we wish to write , lest we should write something we do not mean . I have used the word write often , and you understand me , but thero aro three other words which are sounded exactly tho same : — Wright ... a surname , also a maker o * f _, or workman in , —as wheelwright , a maker of wheels .
Rite ... a ceremony Ri ght .,. correct As well as Write ... to put words down on paper . You may bring all thcBe words into one sentence— ' Mr Wright , will you write the marriage-rite for the wheelwright right . ' Now if you were to spell one of these words iocorrectly what nonsense it would make I And there are many other words in the language which _require as much care . The best way to learn to spell is first to copy , word by word , a sentence from any book , then to read it carefully , then to read the senteucealoud , two or three words at a time , and write them down
without looking at the book ; having finished tne sentence , compare what you have written with tho words in the book , correct any mistakes , and do the samo until you find you write that sentence correctly . If two or threo join together for tbis purpose , aus ! one reads each night in turn while the remainder write , the labour will not be so great , and the improvement will be more rapid , for in this , as in every thing else , Union is Strength . I should advise you to use slates and pencils in preference to paper , as cheaper and more convenient ; and it you _carefully follow the plans I proposo _, I aro certain in less tban a year , you will know how to write , not as well as but much better than , some lords of my acquaintance , I am , your very _sincore Friend , M . M . P .
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Thb Protectionists . —Scarcely any of the county members will consent to stand by Protection , or propose its restoration ; and it appears ' Lord George Bentinck ' _s views off Catholic Endowment have given great offence to his No-Popery adherents . The Horning Herald , the leading _ersan of his party , has given the signal for mutiny , and in civil but unmistakeable terms , has told the statesman of the stable mind that his leadership is at an end . Chinese Cheating . —Captain Superintendent Sir Thomas Bourchier , of Chatham Dockyard , has been
holding a _eottrt of inquiry on board tho Poictiera , at Chatham , to examine the captain andoifieorsofthe Iris , recently arrived with a part of tbe money paid by tho Chineso for breaking some of our countrymen ' s heads . Upon opening ono of the chests , supposed to be filled with silver , to tho amount of £ 1 , 000 , it was discovered to be filled with lead . The ohcsfc was strongly elapsed down , so as to resemble the other chests . No doubt exists as to the - knavery _otthe Chinese , and that thc one was substituted by them for tho other . Captain Munday , who commanded the Irisreceived the chests from the Vixen .
, Suddkn Death of an Iiauas GrvNTLEM . vN . --An inquest was held on Monday evening by Mr iiodiord at the _Sabloniere Hotel , Leicester-square , on the body of Signor Vincenzo Visconti _, aged 48 , who died whilst entering thc above hotel on Friday evening last . Tho deceased gentloraan , it appeared , lelt Milan on the 3 rd instant for this country , en a tour . Whilst at Turin he complained to a fellow-countryman travelling with him of a burning sensation at his chest , which continued until they reached
Cologne , when tho pain left him . On Wednesday he arrived in England , appearing in excellent health . On Friday evening the deceased dined with a party of friends , and on his return was about entering tbe hotel when he fell into the arms of ono of his companions , a corpse . Mr Lenton , tho surgeon , said tha t , on _& post mortem examination , he found the deccaseu _' a heart to be twice its natural _sizi , and much ossified . Tho juvy returned a - » crtlict of' Natural death from disease ofthe heart , producing apoplexy . '
_AonicuLtunxL Q , « eo t . —A . favmer would be thank ful for information as to tho fittest time and best manner of breaking up and converting intotillagoa few acres of land , which hare been in _grassabaufc tea years ; also thc most suitable course ol manuring aud cropping ; the soil is chalky . Abuses op _SsnER . —On Monday , July 20 , a young person called npon a dcnUst of the Palais Royal to have a tooth extractod . She waa rendered unconscious by ether , and somo hours after it was ascertained , by a medical examination , that her person had been violated . The dentist has been placed under arrest . —Medical Times .
Cask op _DisTnHS _3 .,-A severe los ? has been sustained bv a mechanic in the emp loy of Mr bnare , named M a jor , _residing at No 4 _Wlutley-street , Heading , from the destruction by fire ol nearly tho whole of his linen , bed-clothes , and articles o apparrel : it appears , that on Wednesday last , the linen of the family , after being washed , was hung on a screen in the bed-room , and ether portions placed on the bed , whore , as it is supposed , one ot tho children , of which there are tour , Mt fire to the screen , and caused the dostruoUon of the whole , as well aa the bed clotheB : tha wife has been quite disabled for _soven years with rheumatism , and the loss altogether is very heavy npon this industrious individual . Heading Mercury . [ Surely some benevolent individuals are to be found in Reading , or elsowhero _, who will think it a Christian duty to so far aid thia poor man as to enable him to veplace the _necessavfc _^ go _Wifoi * innately destroyed , Ep , N , S « 3
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THE WHIGS A ND JER S EY
'Awake , arise ! or be for ever fallen . ' . TO , THE BDITOB OP THE _WOBT 0 £ B » STAH . 8 fv\—Allow mp , an old correspondent , to draw yonr attention to the tricks of Whiggery , likely to be practised aooner c _latsr upon the people of tha . island of Jersey , who ban ' , from time immemorial , possessed chartered rights snd liberties , granted to them when they were being tnrnad over , neck and crop by Prance , to the tender mercies ( Of England . _Thd treaty then entered into Bt that time b . v Fmnce _, England , and'Jersey , is in every wsy likely tab . " - violated . by the immaculate Whigs , The commission _lately appointed by thorn to make eirtain inquiries _mto _' the stateof tho laws of that island , bare made tlieir nrport , and in that report , the commissioners recommend several" material 8 nd importaut changes ,
which , _IfcarrfaiJout . will at once strike a deadl y biow at their liberties-, antl ptace in tbe- Hands of the most despicable- _governmemt that ever _hei'd sway over these dominions , the power of tasing thst island to what amount ft may think proper . And if _rjm government succeed , _thentobaeeo is to bs the first article taxed to thetuneoffourpencuia the pound , io _nsii 3 t . somo ofthe rotten _brarches of the _aristocrasy to migrate that island . The changes recommended are thus : —ai paid police ; the _sep-iratisn of tbe _judicial from the legislative powers ; and a- re-organization » f the former . There are to be some alterations in the powers of tho Crown officers _fmnrk , the Crown officers ) , and there is » project for changing the _language of thc courts of justice f The til _toratlons that will most ' affect the _Js-ney _.-ins may be
enumerated as follows :-l . The abolition of the present court , and instead , tho instituting of _thene courts , each presided over by a qualiffed summary judge , fmnrk ') _tobePAin-bytheChowN . 2 , Tbrowiag open the bar . 3 . Tho _adoption of the English _language in _all ' oases were _parties moy require it , or otherwise , f which mean * in plain term * , tbat they are to be Iresakdised op- Po . L 4 KK 8 ED- into it ) . 4 . Trial by Jury , ( packed _jartes ; _Jcrgyans look out ); 5 , The abolition of the honorary , aud tbo institution of a pnid police , ( which will partly consist of those belonging to the Pop _.- iy school ) . « r . The establishment of » . police court , or sitting magistrate , ftir the summary _disposnl of petty offences . 7 . Assimilation ofthe criminal law to- that of England . This is a _changa which will entail upon that island an expense
which it is not able to bear . And to meet it , the commissioners recommend that Her Majesty '* _sovercment should impose a duty of _fourpencc per pound on the tobacco consumed in the island , whieh . lt is estimated , would produce an annual revenue of £ 4 _, C 00 _'( quite sufficient for the purpose . In _loolriug through the report , ! find the commissioners do not recommend Her Majesty not to tax the island any further , so tbat part of their report _regarding taxing the tobacco used in tho island being so Indefinite , will be made use of by the Whigs for still further putting on tho screw . Already i 3 the Jersey News in ecstaeies at the report , no-doubt espeetinjj to
become the paid organ of tho government party in return forthe base part it has taken . If ever there was a time for the people of J _^ reey to be up and stirrinp , it is now . Let the people of England , who suffer so much from taxation , assist their Jersey brethren to foil this Whig onslaught . Once allow the _brutalisinp Whigs to trample upon the liberties of that island , you bid adieu tothe liberties of Guernsey , Alderucy , and all other places hitherto comparatively free from taxation . I ask t ! ie people ef England , through your Journal , will they allow the rights of their brethren to bo sacrificed ! I know , from their former conduct , tbeir answer will be—emphatically—a thousand times—no .
I am , respected Sir , Westminster , Yours obediently , August 22 nd , 1817 . T . K . R . _*^^/ ' " _+ _++ _*~* __^^ a \\_ m < m _*_ * _» _+ _*_ T _*~_ * _^ THE Y 0 UN 5 IBBUNDERS OP LONDON . TO Ma T . D . o _' _mAHONEY . Sib , —You will , I trust , excuse me attempting to advise on e , whoso experience in Irish agitation for the last seven years has been ef such a nature as to embolden you , after having met wiih sueh an unjust reward for your services by the Old Ireland , _othenviao Domination Hall , party , to attempt to ralir yonr countrymen in this
metropolis around thc standard of Young Ireland . And I trust that your exertions will meet with that just reward they are entitled to . We have worked together for thelatt seven or eight years for Irish nationality , and I have dedicated this letter to you on account of the straightforward and manly _mannor I have ever observed in you . You are about _farming Young Ireland , clubs in London , thc first of them being now held at the ' Grain Man , ' Berwiclcstrcet , _Oxford-street , on Sunday evenings , and I trust they are held upon quite a _different footing from the old on « s . Nothing , I trust , _exclusircin them . For many were the persons who left our former meetings in disgust UDon that account .
Excuse me when I say that the assistance of no person should be refused , let his politics be what tbey may . The Chartists are looked upon , now that they havo a voice in parliament , in quite a _different light . Thero is now every inclination to listen to them . Theso n ? en must not be excluded from your clubs , or , according to law , _ousiftari / _dubs ; they are men who feel as deeply for liberty as ourselves . I think you will agree with mo that tho working _cla-scs of tho metropolis ought to be acquainted with the real position of Ireland . Throw , then , your meetings open to tbem , and they will come ; and I haveno doubt that their leader , _Fesrpns O'Connor , will also visit our meetings . How many an Irish heart in this metropolis would pant with joy to listen to him addressing a Young Ireland meeting . I know what their
feelings were upon learning that he was _returned M . l for Nottingham ( tho Clare of _E-igland ) . I am fully aware of tbe joy exhibited by yourself and your _1-r . _ither Confederates at learning the joyful news of his return , as likewise that ofthe O'Gorman Mali on ; tho latter was silenced for a time by our late leader , but the other never wa 3 . I know , aad so do you , that a doubt , to a verygreat cstent , exists in the bosoms of the thinking portion of Irishmen , whether the conduct of our late leader was justifiable or not , and there remains not a doubt as regards their verdict , wben wc look back to tho conduct of the Irishmen in London and at home , wken they rallied around Mr Wm . S , O'Brien , when the extinguisher waB attempted to be applied to him . We must not refuse aid from the English working man , nor from tlieir leader , There is no man who wiH _' enter the Commons ' House of Parliament who has a better ri » ht to be called
a gentleman , by birth and education , than Feargus O'Connor , tho Chartist . I trust that you will ecu the great good that will arise from tho co-operation of Englishmen and Irishmen in _tfiisj-netropolis . It will he upon those _ti-rms , and no other , will that 1 join the Confederates . It was the dcclrino I always advocated , ; t : ul I can never desert it . Now is the time for us to be up and doing , and let us trust that should we bo in the agitation this time seven years hence , that we shall find we have reaped a better harvest for our services than wc had in the last soveu years ; and that wc will not allow any leader or leaders ti > put an extinguisher upon our body in this metropolis by calling us 'things . ' or as an O'Connell say , after _remitting to tho association near . ' y £ 2 , 000 per year ' I dissolve that thing called 'Warden _, mote . ' My dear sir , those words , which I have just quoted , aro not forgotten in London .
Go on and prosper—persevere , persevere , ptrRevcrc ~ and yonr exertions in tbo end will be crowned with success . And no ono thing will g ive me greater de . lig ht than to see the toil-worn sons of labour shoulder to shoulder with us , hurling over tho brink of oblivion thu hydra-hended _mouster—despotism . I am , Sir , yours respectfully . An Ex-London Kepwl _Wakdent , _Bridge-street , Parliamcut-strect _, August 23 rd , 3 S 47 . P . S . —I had almost forgotten to mention that I havo solected tho KoRTnERN _Stah for this address , as it h : > s always been tho sincere advocate of the rights of the working man , and a staunch advocate for Repeal .
TIIE LAND PLAN . TO TnE EDITOR OV TnE _NOBTnEBtf STAB . Sib , —1 wish to ask you a qnestiou or two respecting those peop le that are spending so _mueh of their valuable (?) timo , in attempting to depreciate tho noblest of plans — the National Land Thin . How is it , sir , that certain persons who pretend to ba tho friends of tho labouring man , no sooner hear of anything that would be likely to _> be of any advantage to the laboarcr , than tboy rack and torture _tlmv brains to discover * ovne ilaw , some error , or oversight , that may or may not havo _b--en committed on the first outset of any plan that would be of any
service to the working _classes ? Aro they in league witli the people ' s oppressors , or attempting to become so , hy writing puny articles in thsir pipers _ngainst the interest of the poor man ? Papers , sir , that have _fliurished— papers tbat were mainly supported by mechanics and labourersbut which are now going gently down the stream of oblivion , for their supporters have haft their eyes opened to tho wolves in sheep ' s clothing . One paper , the _ll ' ispatch , is afraid that a grout many _ChavtisU will bo offended with theSr statements ; . but , sir , not only will Chartists be offended , but tho _thousands o ? many different creeds that btlong to . tho Land Company will , I take it , be _oEended also .
Now , sir , in lieu of theBo writers wasting their time U no purpose , for the Coaip _.-my will go on , just tho same , why do thej not propose _soaiothing hitter for tho poor niau ; soms grout , original , good tiling , _wnd somo groat and good men to carry such plan into operation _? Simply , because the only plan to _cnwucipate tbc labouring classes fiom their thraldom , is tha Land Plan , and these would bo ' people ' s _friends ' ' ar o cha g rined becaus e t hey havo no thi ng t o do wi t h i t * . It Is the old fablo over again . The grapes , are sou ? -, 1 am a four-acro _shareholder , and plaee every reliance on Mr O'Connor _^ sound practical judgment , knowing him to be the poor man ' s best friend , —for what other gentleman has ever done , or even attempted to do , so much good for the working man _asFenrgn _? O'Connor * I am , sir , yours very respectfully , Jambs Hkmbv _Oait-KiTin , . Marykbone , Aug . 23 rd , 1847 . , » .. /„/ ,. _mto rrt'i "'"
TnE SLEAFORD TRAGEDY . TOTHEEDlXOBOPTnB NORTUEBSST-ltt . SlB _. -Iteg to inform you tbat , in _eonsewwuce ofthe kind _ritentta _» t the Land Company to * _e 1 « , urfor _.
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¦ m * L " ... tunate _clreSSnta _^ _o at SleaforJ , _1 „ Investigating ttt _eausa of the death of William Dodson , the branch M Boston , have had ameelinjf on the Bubjrct , when it wafl proposed- * by myself , and Seconded by Mr J . Woodward _, that a communication thereof be immediatel y forwarded to express our grateful thanks for the notice which _hM been taken of tbat affair . n „ d that w take this outearliest opportunity _» f submitting to yen , that we intend without delay to enter into an arrangement for collecting what each member may havo in his powef to contribute for the benefit of the poor widow and fatherless children . Humbly and _sincsrely hoping that our small endeavours maybe acc ? pthble , and that they may meet _, with the co-operation of the society at large , and tit 9 approbation of its officers , I am / sir , yours truly , J . PlNDARDi THE NEXT ELEOTION—AKE WE KEADY FOK _Iti
'Be always ready . ' : _- ' ' . i TO THE EDITOB OF THK _NOBTDIBK STiB . . ' Vi' " _- _- Dans Sib , —If I wero asked when we ought ' to ba : ready for tiie next _election , I should answer now for- ' ? the sooner we begin preparations , the more prepared V ne shall be when it conies . Mr Gammage h . is tbrowit ' . - _^ out a good suggestion respecting th ; union of Chartists , ! and the formation of a penny election-iund , butl would ' , _, not cou & ne the union to Chartists , my plan beingrtha union of all Reformers- of ' Abuses , ' whatever their ' po _. ' __* iitics may be , and _heaco I woold start an ' Electors' and • • • Non . ehctc * a' League for tbs Abolition of National ¦ ' Wrongs , ' eucb League- to include the _thn-e _countriesr
and havelnud . quarttrs iu London . The objtct tf thi * League _shoald be to draw up a list of National Wronga which ought to- be _ab-Jlislioil ,. ask all to join who approve of the-phm , and _ust only _siart candidates pf . their owu , free of expense , hu 8 resist th * eltction of any other candidate who would not- go ' ths whole hogVin the _'Anti-NationallVron ; ' ' way . As e ? fry n ; cmber " ot " thi » _Leayuo would bo a rolunta 7 y _cantwser of votes fur , _tli 8 League , us wcl ? as voluntary _commntae-man a * . _eleejjiMjs , votes would _be-obtaincd by whole ' saSe-, ana in an honest ! way too ; and , if this is not the way so send to Parliament suoh _uitm as Feargus O'Connor , Tliompson , ' _"liV'iU Hams , and othcre-holding tbc same noble _principlcs-astboy cherish , I _k-now not what is .. Why bave wo not ia the House ( in addition to the above ) , _lUcl-.-ird Oastie ' r ,
_DouffluB Jerrold , William Howitt , and- _ortw nobles of nature ? _< Because we wero not united . ' Tiieplacespf Oastler , Jerrehl , and Howitt , . have been _fillsd by men not worthy to wipe _theirshoes . But the fault is our ownj ' for , had we been as-prepared for the _elrctic-n , now past ? as I trust we _shull bs for the eleotion th ** is to _conicytbiitkyou that suck rubbish , as we have sen returned ., " wouid havo got iu ? - No ! , for our National Union would ' have been a National Broom , und with it we would have swept our house chmn , But * wc will . b ; iv 9 ag ) oriou » _sweepyet ! ' The wrongs which we should _abalish , woul _$ of coarse include Class-legislation ( or exclusive voting _^ Injustice ( or no Parliament ) , for Ireland . _Execution ; ( or , _Strangulution according to act of Parliament ) , Corpora _^ Fuuishmcnt ( in all cases save _theeaac of bod M . P . ' s ) _£
the Game _L-iws , Enclosure Bills , Poor Laws , Window _^ Tijix Law ? , & c . Iu short , 'alllaws bigotttv . by _thed . evilthroufh the agency of _his-class-legislating . _chils'ren 1 ' Oh it would be a glorious contest . ' ; A 'holy war' against ; the devil * iu _Vhi ' ch ' Sataii smitten with amazement '; would fall , uever , I trust , _torise again in this nation _;~' no , nor in any other where enemies to wrong were so ulivc to each other ' s interes ' . s , that tlieir union was ' _devil-prooi 1 ' Let us unite then for ' good , ' and to re-, sist * evil . ' If wo do not , If we continue to be as iudiffer < ent and as false to each other as the great m » j < rity of / uS ' have been , the devil is _quita g ? od enough fur our _conipanion . 'God hclp 3 those who help themselves , ' -is- ' a . true saying ( I know it from _experii ; nci ) , and until we help ourselves , and to good ' Members of Parliament , ' . _**• deserve all the wrongs we _ensure , and more too ! ' . ' ' _"
_Ihaverefraiue-l from starting an Eltction League , ia ' the hope that the Chartists generally will do so , and trusting that the abovo will induce others to ' come out ' upon this reall y important qu slion , I rcmiiti _, sir , With _thiinbs for last insertion , Yours , for the _Aboli'ion of National Wrongs , Uenby Doweu _Gbiffiths _. Marylebone , Aug . 23 rd , 3 S _17 .
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Herr Andersen , the Danish poet , is at present oa a tour through Scotl & nd . IL ; was honoured by an invitation from Prince _Albert for O _^ horne , which has been exchanged for _Anirerikie , in Badenocb . — Perth Courier . Upwards of 300 of the out-pensioners of Oliclsei Hospital , together with their wives and families , \ vill embark from Belfast for _Auokland , in New Zealand , in the course of a tew days . The 'boy Jones , ' whose namo became so familiar lo the public car by his intrusive pranks ' at the Queen ' s palace , Buckingham-house , and _Irr-qtienrly baffled thc utmost vigilance ofthe police and palace Hoard , is now trumpeter iu the 8 sh Hussars in . this
garrison , perfectly cured cf his wayward J _ispositiiiii , a _^ . d one of the best conductrd young men in tbe _regiment . To tlio men and _t . _flteers of tbe Sill he _continues to be known by no other appellation than that of 'boy Jones , ' which acquired him such celebrity tbnv . or four years ago in Loudon and Windsor . —Limerick Chronicle . The Rev . Mr Cudihy _, 0 . S . F ., at the _Waterf-. rd electi'Hi said : — "Now is the winter of onr discontent Wade glorious summer by _the- ' re ; urn of O'Connell and Meag her : ' -. - ,.: But iienr me . I think only _liaff _t' _-io vicfory is woh while a Whig remains in the country to contaminate ) it . '—The summer seems over-clouded at _f _^ cc . * ¦ ' . ¦ ¦ - . . ' _-
By a parliamentary rettirnjtist printed , it appears that , to tiie 21 st ult ., £ 35 , 773 , 789 14 $ . S . i- _ivas- ' paid _, _- _- ' and £ l . S 3 Q _, 70 l ISs . 10 . 1 . remained to be paid by tlie several railway companies _having had purchase _^ - sale , lease , or amalgamation bills before _parliaments in the Iato session . There lias' been formed in Glasgow , w it ' iin thc-so few day * , an _ansociaUeii of a very remarkable character ; its title is ' The _Anli-Gold League . ' Its object is the overthrow of Peel's monetary s ; . stemthc ab o li t ion , ia short , not merely ot the . Bank Charter Act , but of tlio Currency Law of 1 S 39 . Six children were nearly poisoned last week , at Penrith , by eating some berries of ths _tturgc laurel , whieh they bad " found in a garden ; but emetics were administered to theiu and tliey Ultimately recovered .
A _h ' rench surgeon states thnt , by _fittin » _bedsteads with glass feet , nnd isolating thorn ab : » ut eighteen inches from the wall of the apartment , he lias cured the patients sleeping on tbem of a host of nervous _ail ' _- _'otions . 4 We hear , ' says the Sftmford Mercury , ' that »• large _quantity of old wheat is yd in the hands of several farmers on the Trent-side , nnd that some of fchetn are flogging Hie / _nseJves severely for not _sjlling when prices were 50 * . a quarter _higher . ' Bumtt ' s Christian Ci ( i : cno ( the 17 th , says— _"fhef sea serpent wa 3 seen at _A ' _ibant ( U . S . I on Sunday , by six per . _-ons who were upon the ruchs . He raised his he . «! apparently ten feet above the level of tli » water , and t hen graduall y sunk and disappeared . '
A person inquiring at ono ofthe North Railway stations , what timo thc 7 45- train would start , waa sharply answered at a quarter to eight— ' God bless mo , ' exclaimed the inquirer ' you arc always _changing the time on this line . ' One of tbc American papers bad a . bead ' Marriages intended , ' under which ara _ranged the names of affi _uiecd candidates I ' or the stateof matrimony . So _devaufc a Alahommedan is the Turkish Suiun , that he _pcisists in _abstaining from _intoxicatingii _qnoK , aUhoush his physicians ihtnU that ibe moderate use t ; f wine wauld improve his health . ' lfc was stated on the hustings at Darlinjiton , that John B : iwes , Esq ., the former member , had tpriiiC tho sum of £ jl ) , 0 l ) 6 ia two contests for South Durham .
Measures ore bcisg taken in London to establish _, an abytum for the reception ol'idioU , whose intellectual and moral _csossitj the promoters of tbis design consider capable of some developement . By an ace ot parliament of la . _u session , persons sending threatening letters may be imprisoned aud thrka whipped , . or _transported . The cap ital employed w the coal t _? F . de of _Northumberland and Durham is estimated at nearly ten millions . An American paper says that during tbc l > .: in !> _ardment of Vera Cr » £ , Gen . Worth sent a aerva » _t , t « fetch a bucket of water tor his _horse . At tho moment . _wi ; ea the man returned , a shell fall within a few feet of the general , who coolly ordered him to pour tha water ou the _baml _) , aud by thus exusisuisliins ; the fuseo , preve & tcd thc _explus-oii of tho pnjsctile _. which wouli probabl y have killed or wounded several persons . '
Sir John Hobhouse will probably before ioag _ba raised to the _pcem-ic . No fewer than _sixteen gentlemen connected witli Manchester , ami eight with Liverpool , have been ret ' _-inied _duvitig the past elewwn . The last descendant oi Martia Lutber , now _hvinsr inUerma . iv , ami very poor , lately abjured me reformed , and ado pted the Catholic _reasinn . Ths Jew . ; residing at Constance arc io i o admitted tr _> nil tl _»> _yU'Vs of citiamship . _SetcSu _lhe _Morn Counties Railway * ere raised last week nearly 2 a per cent . Tho _clergyman in ft certain tocn , as the custom is _liariiiT published tho bands ofiw * pu ny bewe n two _pcraona , ' wns _thllo _we-d by the _oleics . e , u-£ thcWm" beginning with these words- _'Mist-tut .. "onls , who dream ot heaven . ' „? _,,, _„„ Very few of the Greeuland whabw _bsw taKen ¦ more than threo _tish this season _. _aud _sevt-v . uo ftUem
OfX 137 prisoncra for trial atthe Mayo _asstes . but seven could cither read op write . The Newcastle election _wikcort tho _lorycfttwi * data pretty woll on _toward-i _A' 6 _, 000 . Tom Thumb is _buiMtaga handsome palace i _Ymerica . When it fotomp le t _ed _, new will an _uitfifce . _have- 'been _raiiCil on 30 _sm % iU _fcunoatpu , - * APunchy j
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 28, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_28081847/page/3/
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